This huge piece is now in posession is Swizzerland, if I remember well.It takes a few people to assemble the various parts of this masterwork, a bronze stand for incense, about 2 meters high.Each part is decorated finely with patterns and motives, like small animals in the waves.

The original is made with a special wax preparation, then covered in a non-meltable substance to produce a form for the melted metal to be poored in.roogata chuukin 蝋型鋳金

After the casting, it has to be reworked and polished to make the various joints invisible.